diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/mailreaders/thunderbird/packages.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/mailreaders/thunderbird/packages.nix
index adb295c8c682..93433662a62a 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/mailreaders/thunderbird/packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/mailreaders/thunderbird/packages.nix
@@ -29,6 +29,11 @@ let
         # The file to be patched is different from firefox's `no-buildconfig-ffx90.patch`.
         (if lib.versionOlder version "140" then ./no-buildconfig.patch else ./no-buildconfig-tb140.patch)
       ];
+      # FIXME: let's hope that upstream will fix this soon and we can drop this hack again.
+      # https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2006630
+      extraPostPatch = lib.optionalString (lib.versionAtLeast version "147") ''
+        find . -name .cargo-checksum.json | xargs sed 's/"[^"]*\.gitmodules":"[a-z0-9]*",//g' -i
+      '';
 
       meta = {
         changelog = "https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/${version}/releasenotes/";
@@ -60,8 +65,8 @@ rec {
   thunderbird = thunderbird-latest;
 
   thunderbird-latest = common {
-    version = "146.0.1";
-    sha512 = "8a3b2de246c7c597574fce596836c7ef7b24bd21573feb15c308003f34b82335ad865aa0f81b24d1669c8023c0448c0e273a63019aab13356b023c2e8adc2c47";
+    version = "147.0.1";
+    sha512 = "bae9adbcb1d45a7644e4d699215a3da85b612b9d99516bdf12f84482f1a6f89153ec4d5ab6dd8bcf69dc512cb50080db4630a5bb52525f22213c7af92b4b77d7";
 
     updateScript = callPackage ./update.nix {
       attrPath = "thunderbirdPackages.thunderbird-latest";